In order to submit compounds to DTP, you must register as a supplier on DTP's compound submission site. The overall process is summarized in a flow chart.
To register you need to complete a form with some information about you and your institution. The most important piece of information is your email address. Almost all communication from DTP will be sent to that email address. The other information is mainly used to understand and track classes of submitters. We look at US vs. foreign, academic vs. commercial, NCI grantee vs. non NCI grantee, and other characteristics in order to focus and evaluate the effect of our outreach efforts. Typically within a few working days after you submit your application you will receive your username and password. You must also request a DTP electronic security certificate. The certificate is installed on the browser that will be used to submit the compounds and access the data and it provides an extra layer of security for these transactions. DTP is currently modifying the process to remove the need for self signed certificates, simplifying the registration process. Current users will not be affected.
One choice you can make on registering is to request that your compounds be treated confidentially. If the Confidentiality Agreement is executed, DTP will never release your structures or data, or even the information that you have structures registered with us. Of course the data is yours and you can publish or disclose the data to anyone you choose to. The agreement must be fully signed and executed before any compound will be treated as confidential, so if this is important to you, make sure this is taken care of before you submit any compounds. If you do not execute the confidentiality agreement, the present policy is to make the structure and data publicly available two years from the date of the first test.
What is the procedure to make the data publicly available immediately?
We will have to talk about this. There are two parts. The first is when will we load the data into the DTP public database and make it available on our web pages. We ordinarily try to do that once or twice a year, although are automated procedures are almost good enough now to think of doing it maybe four times on year on a very clearly defined schedule. I have not been in favor of constant additions, I much prefer clear, documented, labeled releases, so it would take some convincing to get to go any more often than that. The other issue is setting DTP policy and making it known so that any releases "out of schedule" are not done in a completely ad hoc manner. The lawyers are a little restless about the fact that submitters that do not complete a confidentiality agreement have no nice legal piece of paper to clearly indicate what the agreement is. There is some discussions about how to fix that and the policy questions will be answered as part of any new document. Perhaps have a document to sign for those willing to operate under fully open conditions to make it clear for the lawyers.
The second part of it is when you can release the data on your pages. The answer there is whenever you want to. We can talk about technical aspects of this, but there are a lot of (non-mutually exclusive) choices, including text file dumps on your wiki, graphics on the wiki, submit to PubChem yourself, etc. Sure, this is in fact one of the powerful advantages of fully open science - there is no barrier to redundancy.
Registering as a DTP supplier
In order to submit compounds to DTP, you must register as a supplier on DTP's compound submission site. The overall process is summarized in a flow chart.
To register you need to complete a form with some information about you and your institution. The most important piece of information is your email address. Almost all communication from DTP will be sent to that email address. The other information is mainly used to understand and track classes of submitters. We look at US vs. foreign, academic vs. commercial, NCI grantee vs. non NCI grantee, and other characteristics in order to focus and evaluate the effect of our outreach efforts. Typically within a few working days after you submit your application you will receive your username and password. You must also request a DTP electronic security certificate. The certificate is installed on the browser that will be used to submit the compounds and access the data and it provides an extra layer of security for these transactions. DTP is currently modifying the process to remove the need for self signed certificates, simplifying the registration process. Current users will not be affected.
One choice you can make on registering is to request that your compounds be treated confidentially. If the Confidentiality Agreement is executed, DTP will never release your structures or data, or even the information that you have structures registered with us. Of course the data is yours and you can publish or disclose the data to anyone you choose to. The agreement must be fully signed and executed before any compound will be treated as confidential, so if this is important to you, make sure this is taken care of before you submit any compounds. If you do not execute the confidentiality agreement, the present policy is to make the structure and data publicly available two years from the date of the first test.
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What is the procedure to make the data publicly available immediately?We will have to talk about this. There are two parts. The first is when will we load the data into the DTP public database and make it available on our web pages. We ordinarily try to do that once or twice a year, although are automated procedures are almost good enough now to think of doing it maybe four times on year on a very clearly defined schedule. I have not been in favor of constant additions, I much prefer clear, documented, labeled releases, so it would take some convincing to get to go any more often than that. The other issue is setting DTP policy and making it known so that any releases "out of schedule" are not done in a completely ad hoc manner. The lawyers are a little restless about the fact that submitters that do not complete a confidentiality agreement have no nice legal piece of paper to clearly indicate what the agreement is. There is some discussions about how to fix that and the policy questions will be answered as part of any new document. Perhaps have a document to sign for those willing to operate under fully open conditions to make it clear for the lawyers.
The second part of it is when you can release the data on your pages. The answer there is whenever you want to. We can talk about technical aspects of this, but there are a lot of (non-mutually exclusive) choices, including text file dumps on your wiki, graphics on the wiki, submit to PubChem yourself, etc. Sure, this is in fact one of the powerful advantages of fully open science - there is no barrier to redundancy.